June 8, 2012

The 11th annual Bonnaroo Music Festival kicked off down in Tennessee this weekend, with performances by Radiohead, tUnE-yArDs, St. Vincent, EMA, Danny Brown, and many more. Our photographers Mitch Manzella and Ceilidh Madigan are there for the entire festival.

June 3, 2012

Azealia Banks brought her show to a hometown gig at New York's Bowery Ballroom, with the charming moniker "Mermaid Ball", and it featured performances from House of LaDosha, Maluca, and others. Photos by Ebru Yildiz.

June 2, 2012

The fifth annual Roots Picnic festival, curated by the Roots in conjunction with Okayplayer, went down in Philadelphia this weekend, with sets by James Murphy, De La Soul, St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Danny Brown, and many more. Our photographer Colin Kerrigan was on site grabbing some live photos and a few portraits of some of the artists.

June 3, 2012

While on site in Barcelona, our photographers Erez Avissar, Nilina Mason-Campbell, and Charlotte Zoller managed to get these portraits of a few of the artists who performed at San Miguel Primavera Sound 2012.

June 1, 2012

Day two of the San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival 2012 saw performances by Jeff Mangum, M83, The Cure, Girls, Sleigh Bells, The Men, Wavves, and many more. Photos by Erez Avissar and Charlotte Zoller.

May 31, 2012

The first day of the Primavera Sound 2012 festival kicked off yesterday in Barcelona, with sets by Mazzy Star, Spiritualized, the xx, Japandroids, Grimes, and many more. Photos by Erez Avissar and Charlotte Zoller.

May 24, 2012

Fresh off his Best New Music-awarded LP, R.A.P. Music, Killer Mike performed a free show at Brooklyn Bowl last night, along with DIIV, High Highs, and DJ Awesome Tapes From Africa. Photos by Erez Avissar / Weird Magic.

May 19, 2012

Arkansas doom quartet Pallbearer played some material from their recent, Best New Music-awarded LP, Sorrow and Extinction, during a sold-out show at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus this weekend, with Tennessee death/doom band Loss. Photos by Samantha Marble.

May 11, 2012

This weekend, in Washington, D.C., Pitchfork partnered with the Hirshhorn Museum and Wired to present one of multimedia artist Doug Aitken's "Happening" events for his public art project "SONG 1". The "Happening" featured musical contributions from Animal Collective's Geologist, Nicolas Jaar, Oneohtrix Point Never, No Age, High Places, Tim McAfee-Lewis, and Leo Gallo. Photos by Francis Chung.

May 1, 2012

April 24, 2012

Last night at Los Angeles' Echoplex, Hype Williams, James Ferraro (as Bodyguard), Gatekeeper, and White Car played the monthly Check Yo Ponytail 2 party, along with Slow Motion DJs and members of Teams and Greatest Hits joining on duties. Photos by Erez Avissar.

April 11, 2012

March 14, 2012

Yesterday afternoon, Pitchfork's Show No Mercy threw its first ever SXSW event, an unofficial day party at ND, featuring performances by the Atlas Moth, Black Tusk, Deafheaven, Pallbearer, KEN mode, Pilgrim, and Mutilation Rites. Photos by Will Deitz.

March 15, 2012

March 23, 2012

Grimes performed two shows on Friday at New York's Mercury Lounge (as well as another at Glasslands Gallery the following day), on the eve of her debut visual arts show at the East Village AVA gallery. Photos by Will Deitz.

March 15, 2012

Photographer Erik Sanchez and assistant Whitney Lee took these video portraits with a few of the artists who played our SXSW showcases last week, including Grimes, Danny Brown (above), Charli XCX, Light Asylum, Nicolas Jaar, Schoolboy Q, Deafheaven, Trash Talk, the Atlas Moth, Black Tusk, Japandroids, Teengirl Fantasy, El-P, and Bear in Heaven. A special thanks to all the aritsts involved for being such good sports.

March 6, 2012

February 21, 2012

Last night Frankie Rose performed at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory, following the release of her Best New Music-awarded album, Interstellar. Dive and Night Manager opened, and our photographer Erez Avissar was on the scene.

January 28, 2012

Real Estate, Black Dice, and the Babies performed at the K&K Super Buffet, a Chinese buffet/"new venue" in Ridgewood, Queens, this weekend, with DJs Oneohtrix Point Never. Our photographer Erez Avissar was on the scene.

January 26, 2012

Last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Antony Hegarty and Antony and the Johnsons debuted a "large-scale concert and performance event" titled "Swanlights", which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art. Our photographer Will Deitz was there.

January 18, 2012

January 14, 2012

Johnny Jewel's projects Glass Candy, Chromatics, and Desire played Portland's Branx this weekend, along with a DJ set by Mike Simonetti of Troubleman and Italians Do It Better. Photographer Nilina Mason-Campbell was on the scene.